Legal Ethics
No Sign of Missing Okla. Attorney Accused of Embezzling
Posted Sep 23, 2008, 11:54 am CST
By Martha Neil
An Oklahoma attorney who has been missing since last week apparently walked over to a vehicle at his Lake Texoma home and got in.
But from there the trail of the longtime Duncan lawyer grows cold, and authorities think Charles Barnes' absence has something to do with charge filed against him earlier this month alleging that he embezzled $148,000 from a trust fund for a client's dead aunt, reports the Oklahoman. Since he was arrested, others have come forward claiming that he also swindled them, according to Stephens County District Attorney Bret Burns.
"We're looking at two possibilities,” inspector Richard Goss of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation tells the newspaper. "No. 1: Mr. Barnes went off in a remote area and did harm to himself. Or No. 2: He made an elaborate plan to abscond from the charges against him."
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